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The Weight of the Evidence
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Michael Innes |
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House of Stratus |
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15 January 2001 |
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9781842327586 |
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Meteorites fall from the sky but seldom onto the heads of science dons in redbrick universities; yet this is what happens to Professor Pluckrose of Nestfield University. Inspector Appleby soon discovers that the meteorite was not fresh and that the professor's deckchair had been placed underneath a large, accessible tower - he already knew something of academic jealousies but he was to find out a great deal more. ...more |
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The Mystery of the Enchanted Crypt
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Eduardo Mendoza |
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Telegram Books |
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1 October 2008 |
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978-1846590511 |
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Released from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quick-witted and foul-smelling narrator delves deep into the underworld of 1970s Barcelona to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from a convent school. Aided only by his ageing prostitute sister and the voluptuous nymphomaniac, Mercedes, the narrator's investigations take him deeper into a mystery involving murdered sailors, suicidal daughters, a web of organised crime and a secret, underground crypt. It is a hilarious detective romp through seedy underworld Barcelona. ...more |
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The Man Everybody Was Afraid
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Joseph Hansen |
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Henry Holt and Co. |
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1 December 1981 |
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978-0805007237 |
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Insurance investigator Dave Brandstetter nettles the cops and the victim's widow and comes upon all kinds of loose ends when he looks into the murder of Police Chief Ben Orton, a murder for which a gay activist has been arrested.
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The Little Dog Laughed (A Brandstetter mystery)
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Joseph Hansen |
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No Exit Press |
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4 January 2002 |
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978-1842430606 |
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Celebrated foreign correspondent, Adam Streeter is found shot dead in his elegant LA condo. The cops say suicide - so does Streeter's blind, teenage daughter. But the company that insured his life thinks otherwise and sends in crack death-claims investigator Dave Brandstetter.
And so begins a case that will take Brandstetter into the most dangerous game in the world - played for high political stakes in a Central American arena by desperate men. As he pushes deeper into the case, he unearths three more deaths seemingly linked to Streeter's. Little by little, Brandstetter narrows the hunt for the killer - only to find he himself has become ......more |
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The Late-Night News
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Petros Markaris |
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Vintage |
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4 August 2005 |
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9780099464624 |
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Costas Haritos, a CID chief in central Athens, is uncomfortably married, aggressive and pessimistic, and only manages to relax when he is at home reading his English dictionaries. A veteran of the force, he is only now coming to terms with the pervasive corruption in public and private life since the fall of the military dictatorship and the advent of democratic government.
When an Albanian couple is found brutally slaughtered, it looks like an open and shut crime of passion. But when Yanna, a TV journalist investigating the same case, is murdered in a broadcasting studio just before going on air, Haritos begins to think he's missing ......more |
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Silence Observed
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Michael Innes |
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House of Stratus |
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16 April 2001 |
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978-1842327555 |
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Respected Fine Art experts are deceived in one of the most intriguing murder cases Inspector Appleby has ever faced, beginning with Gribble, a collector of forgeries whose latest acquisition is found to be a forged forgery! In the words of Appleby himself: 'Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Just a little mad, for a start. Inclined, say, to unreasonable jokes in the course of business. But later - well, very mad indeed.' ...more |
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Nightwork (A Brandstetter mystery)
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Joseph Hansen |
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No Exit Press |
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22 February 2001 |
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978-1901982220 |
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In a remote spot outside L.A, a giant truck suddenly plunges in flames off a mountain road at midnight. It looks like an accident, but it isn't. Someone had fastened a bomb under the truck, killing owner-driver, Paul Myers who was insured for $100,000. Crack insurance investigator, Dave Brandsetter is called in to find out what happened and why. Why was Myers hauling in that secluded spot at that hour and for whom? No one wants to answer Dave's questions but then another trucker's death arouses suspicions and a pattern begins to emerge. ...more |
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London Blues
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Anthony Frewin |
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No Exit Press |
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8 January 2005 |
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978-1842431535 |
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The chance discovery of a 30 year old blue movie leads to the film's maker, Tim Purdom, and the London on the late fifties and early sixties. Purdom was a pioneer of the black and white British porno and a figure on the periphery of the Profumo sex scandal. He directed eight films - but who was directing him? And where is he now? ...more |
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Gently with the Painters
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Alan Hunter |
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Robinson Publishing |
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3 November 2011 |
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978-1780331447 |
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The death of a young artist leaves Gently desperately piecing together the portrait of a murderer. When artist Shirley Johnson is murdered and her body dumped outside a provincial police headquarters, Gently is despatched from London to Northshire to take over the investigation. The prime suspect appears to be the woman's husband, a former bomber pilot with a guilty secret, but the other members of the woman's art group also have strong views about her and her controversial final painting - Dark Destroyer. With so many suspects to consider, Gently must get to the bottom of the mystery before the murderer manages to slip through his fingers. ......more |
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Gently to the Summit
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Alan Hunter |
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Robinson Publishing |
| Published Date |
3 November 2011 |
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9781780331461 |
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A long-dead climber who comes in from the cold brings murder to the mountain air. Mountaineer Reginald Kincaid was believed to have died during an expedition to climb Mount Everest. It comes as a shock to his fellow climbers when he turns up again 22 years later and the mystery is compounded by the death of Arthur Fleece, Kincaid's climbing partner on the Everest attempt. Fleece falls to his death on Mount Snowdon in an apparent accident, but the feud that had developed between Fleece and the resurrected Kincaid sparks a murder investigation for George Gently with a 'dead' man as the prime suspect. Praise for Alan Hunter's Gently books: 'It is ......more |
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Gently Go Man
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Alan Hunter |
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Robinson Publishing |
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3 November 2011 |
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978-1780331485 |
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Speed makes the teenage bikers feel alive, but they soon find that murder is the fastest way to die A five-mile stretch of arrow-straight road outside Latchford acts like a magnet to beatnik bikers using the road like a drag strip. When one of the bikers is killed in an accident, most people regard it as an inevitable consequence of the kids using drugs and racing bikes for kicks. But the evidence points to the young man's death being something more sinister than a mere accident and George Gently is drawn into a world populated by disaffected teenagers, with a jazz soundtrack and a background of murder. Praise for Alan Hunter's Gently books: ......more |
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Gently Down the Stream
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Alan Hunter |
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Robinson Publishing |
| Published Date |
16 September 2010 |
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978-1849015004 |
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Time spent messing about on the river isn't supposed to end with a brutal murder. The staff at Stoley's Boatyard were used to holidaymakers returning their pleasure cruisers a little late after a week or so exploring the network of waterways around Norchester. They were not used to finding their yachts burned almost beyond recognition with the charred remains of a client still aboard. Taking on the murder investigation, Chief Inspector George Gently faces an enquiry like no other he has ever handled. Somewhere beneath the lies of the victim's wife, somewhere obscured by the brittle edge of her daughter's fear, somewhere hidden by her son's ......more |
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Gently Does It
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Alan Hunter |
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Robinson Publishing |
| Published Date |
16 September 2010 |
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9781849014984 |
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The last thing you need when you're on holiday is to become involved in a murder. For most people, that would easily qualify as the holiday from hell. For George Gently, it is a case of business as usual. The Chief Inspector's quiet Easter break in Norchester is rudely interrupted when a local timber merchant is found dead. His son, with whom he had been seen arguing, immediately becomes the prime suspect, although Gently is far from convinced of his guilt. Norchester City Police gratefully accept Gently's offer to help investigate the murder, but he soon clashes with Inspector Hansom, the officer in charge of the case. Hansom's idea of ......more |
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Gently by the Shore
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Alan Hunter |
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Robinson Publishing |
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16 September 2010 |
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978-1849014991 |
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You'll find plenty of bodies stretched out on a summer beach - but they're not usually dead...In a British seaside holiday resort at the height of the season, you would expect to find a promenade and a pier, maybe some donkeys, 'Kiss-Me-Quick' hats, candy floss and kids building sandcastles. You would not expect to find a naked corpse, punctured with stab wounds, lying on the sand. Chief Inspector George Gently is called in to investigate the disturbing murder. The case has to be wrapped up quickly to calm the nerves of concerned holidaymakers. No one wants to think that there is a maniac on the loose in the town but with no clothes or ......more |
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Early Graves (A Brandstetter mystery)
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Joseph Hansen |
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No Exit Press |
| Published Date |
7 January 2002 |
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978-1842430637 |
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The 9th novel in the Dave Brandstetter PI series, Dave Brandstetter, is called upon to track down a serial killer operating in and around Los Angeles who has been killing gay men who have AIDS. 'The most exciting and effective writer of the classic private-eye novel working today' -LA Times 'After 40 years, Hammet has a worthy successor' - The Times '...a strong unflinching writer and everything in his taut prose is real' - Boston Globe ...more |
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Death of a Train
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Freeman Wills Crofts |
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| Publisher |
Penguin |
| Published Date |
1953 |
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n/a |
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Appleby and the Ospreys
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Michael Innes |
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| Publisher |
House of Stratus |
| Published Date |
12 February 2001 |
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9781842327197 |
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Clusters, a great country house, is troubled by bats, as Lord and Lady Osprey complain to their guests, who include first rate detective, Sir John Appleby. In the matter of bats, Appleby is indifferent, but he is soon faced with a real challenge - the murder of Lord Osprey, stabbed with an ornate dagger in the library. ...more |
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An Awkward Lie
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Michael Innes |
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| Publisher |
House of Stratus |
| Published Date |
1 January 2001 |
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9781842327241 |
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Sir John Appleby's son, Bobby, assumes his father's detective role in this baffling crime. When Bobby finds a dead man, in a bunker on a golf course, he notices something rather strange - the first finger of the man's right hand is missing. A young girl approaches the scene and offers to watch the body while Bobby goes for help, but when he returns with the police in tow, the body and the girl are missing. ...more |
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